They caused injuries that civilian doctors don’t often see. Rather, they’re more like war injuries from land mines and IEDs.

The bombs caused what doctors call traumatic amputations, meaning the concussions from the blasts themselves severed the limbs. While doctors were able to save the lives of most of the severely injured, they were not able to save their legs.

“Almost all of them had such severe trauma in their lower extremity that was beyond salvation. So, I would consider them almost automatic…